Yet having the card also meant returning to the Community and remembering why they’d dropped out of the world in the first place. The hard faces of strangers and the allure of materialism. Fighting for one’s piece on a pavement where people bumped into each other without apologies or acknowledgment of doing so. The stench emanating from the big stinking apple that rotted from the inside out. Ummi reveled in the choke of the city and was simultaneously turned off. Watching the bustle tired her out.
